Summary: Timwi asked to have a policy against talk page spamming.
My reply:
I don't think it would be good to have such a policy. And the incidents you described are not "spamming".
--Optim
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If the Wikipedia community codifies such non-policies (We have no policy on...) expect those who egregiously violate reasonable community standards to say in their defense such things as "There is no policy against reverting pages" etc... and, at least in their own mind, justify gross violations of etiquette which carried to an extreme disrupt the project to an unacceptable degree.
Fred
From: Optim optim81@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:41:56 -0800 (PST) To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: User talk page spamming (policy suggestion)
Summary: Timwi asked to have a policy against talk page spamming.
My reply:
I don't think it would be good to have such a policy. And the incidents you described are not "spamming".
--Optim
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Optim wrote:
Summary: Timwi asked to have a policy against talk page spamming.
My reply:
I don't think it would be good to have such a policy. And the incidents you described are not "spamming".
You've forgotten to bring forward at least one argument. Fred Bauder mentioned a good one in favour of such a policy. Admittedly, I didn't explicitly mention one, but I think mine is pretty obvious: It is annoying to be bothered with impersonal requests that you have nothing to do with.
Timwi